Fabulous Chicago

Here is a sparkling one-volume history of an American city like no other - and of the vibrant people who built it. The Yankees who came west to gamble fortunes on the Board of Trade, the Swifts and Armours, Fields and McCormicks, and the new immigrants who worked in their stockyard, stores and railroads-together and at odds they built Chicago out of the prairie mud and built it again when the Great Fire destroyed it. This is a story of political turmoil, of corruption, of social striving and reform: the Haymarket Massacre, the Pullman Strikes, Jane Addams of Hull House, and the notorious Al Capone. The entrepreneurial giants, the gangsters and mayors of legend, the poets, like Sandburg and MacLeish, and architects like Frank Lloyd Wright - all belong to Chicago, and populate this richly anecdotal book. Fabulous Chicago is a fascinating history that comes alive with the spirit and color of the city. A best-seller when first published in 1953, this lavishly illustrated volume has now been enlarged and updated to include events of the recent past - from the rise of Mayor Daley and the tumult of 1968 to the flowering of Chicago as a cultural center.